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I remember cycling to Matching Green from Harlow in the early Seventies, as a 16 year old, exploring with friends one summer evening and coming across a cottage garden filled with strange but delightful 'art works' made out of ...Read more

A memory of Matching Green in 1973 by Melvyn Helsey

With my newly obtained lawyer´s degree and after joining a British bank based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, I was sent to London, to follow an international training course of one year, along with my wife Rosemarie and our one year ...Read more

A memory of Car Colston in 1972 by Enrique Martin

In 1973 I became the general manager of Streatham Hill Theatre, managing the Mecca Social/Bingo club. It was the flagship club of the company and was every manager's dream to run it. Previous managers were Robin Pritchard, ...Read more

A memory of Streatham in 1973 by Peter Gauci

I was born and bred in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, the eldest of three children. My memories of Ashby itself are snapshots from a time which now seems so old-fashioned that it as nostalgic as a Herriot novel. As a young ...Read more

A memory of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1970

My name is Rachel Page and my grandmother was known as Betty Tapping. She was caretaker at Haydon Hall for many years.I remember her looking after me while she would do her job. I used to watch her wax the floors. I ...Read more

A memory of Eastcote in 1976 by Rachel Page

I remember the green double decker buses revving up Crays Hill in the snow and jamming their tyres against the curb to try and get up. We lived in Elm Bank on the hill and sometimes witnessed the buses sliding side-ways back down ...Read more

A memory of Crays Hill in 1977 by Helena Mead

We used to go in there often, and I remember one time being very confused when asked whether I wanted lemonade, cherryade, limeade or Whipsnade, 'cause I knew that was a zoo and I didn't quite get the idea of puns. ...Read more

A memory of Dorchester in 1974

My grandparents Jack and Beral Storey lived at 8 Plumpton Close with their kids Ricky, Stevie, Sharon and Darrell. My dad was Stevie who sadly passed away in 1980. I spent every weekend at my nan's and have great memories like going ...Read more

A memory of Northolt in 1977 by Steve Storey

I remember during my teens to early twenties there always seemed to be gigs on. From The Green Man (where it must be said, I really shouldn't have been, not then being 18), where it was very bluesy music, plus of course the mighty ...Read more

A memory of Kidderminster in 1973 by Dylan Mears

I had returned to UK from Queensland to visit my mother who was ill and waiting at the platform entrance at Waterloo station when a former colleague from Post Office Overseas Telegraph came up to me and we began a conversation ...Read more

A memory of Frimley Green in 1978 by John Scott